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School’s Out! (And So Are We): A Night of Games, Glam and Glitter

By Brian Wanee

Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022

Time: 9:30 PM – 2:00 AM

Open Bar: 9:45 – 10:45 PM

The last and biggest party of the year is finally back, hosted by your faves from OutClass! Come celebrate the end of the year right at Slate Game nightclub in Chelsea with an open premium bar from 9:45 – 10:45 PM. 

Show off your game skills at pool, ping pong, foosball, giant jenga, giant connect 4, UNO, a full arcade including pop-a-shot, skeeball, giant Pacman, video pong and 3 lanes of duckpin bowling. Then, show your fiercest dance moves on the dance floor as our DJ turns today’s hottest hits!…

SternReads: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

You will enjoy this if:you are looking for a light-hearted sci-fi novel, you enjoyed the nerdy exposition in The Martian or Project Hail Mary, you want to read a less serious Jurassic Park, you enjoyed Murderbot!

Not long after I moved to New York, I hit what avid readers would call a reading slump.

Whether it was the stress of moving to a new city, homesickness, the anxiety of recruiting or a combination of the three, I could not say. Whereas stories were once an escape, now reading anything at all felt too hard. For someone who could once read a thousand-page tome while standing in a six o’clock rush hour train, this was nothing short of a nightmare.…

Return of the Gotham Cup (or, How to Support a Great Charity While Showing CBS Who’s Boss)

By Henry Mumford

What could be better than walking around outside with a bunch of Sternies, having a few drinks, and (if you want) beating up on those people uptown at CBS in some friendly competition? We agree, not much. That’s why People at Stern who love Golf * are partnering with the Young Benefactors of First Tee – Met NY to bring back the Gotham Cup!

Join us on April 23rd at Dyker Beach for the Gotham Cup. Play in the competitive Battle of the MBAs (sponsored by Five Iron), or relax in the friendly division – golfers of all skill levels are welcome.…

B-School Newspaper Coalition: April 2022 Roundup

Last year, The Oppy reached out to other business school newspapers around the country to get a sense of how they’re running their papers. After meeting with several editors-in-chief from MBA programs, we decided to form a coalition with a small but growing group of top graduate business schools. We are going to share some of their best articles from their monthly issues.

For April, we have ChiBus, the newspaper from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Some of the interesting reads from their last issue are:

Answering the Call of the Wild: Life in Alaska

Val Cassan (’22) makes the most of virtual classes by spending a few weeks in a remote Alaskan village, an entirely atypical MBA experience.

Information and Cyber Warfare in Ukraine

The Ukraine-Russia war will be marked in history as one of the first wars where cyber-attacks and modern information warfare came to the forefront of combat techniques along with traditional warfare. These warfare tactics are not just being employed by nation-states, but also by countless private organizations.

WHAT IS CYBER AND INFORMATION WARFARE?

A quick huddle on what cyber and information warfare means: Cyber warfare aims to neutralize an enemy’s critical systems supported through computers and computer networks. Targets can include banking institutions, electricity grids, power generators, water plants, nuclear plants, transportation systems, etc. An information warfare is the battle of truths, ideas, perceptions, and propaganda for manipulating morale, loyalty, influence, trust, and clarity of thought.…

Emoting in a Man’s World

By Sara Huncke

It’s no coincidence that Hulu decided to release The Dropout at the very top of Women’s History Month. For those that live under a rock, The Dropout is a limited series reenacting the events that occurred around the founding and demise of a company called Theranos that falsely promised people the opportunity to take blood tests with just one drop of blood. The company was founded by a woman, Elizabeth Holmes, who is an awkward yet feminine megalomaniac that started her mission during her undergrad at Stanford. Holmes, played by Amanda Seyfried, meets with different esteemed professors on campus to get their opinion on the validity of her invention.…

Spotify and the Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation (A.K.A. The Joe Rogan Problem)

In May 2020, Spotify signed an exclusive podcast deal with Joe Rogan that is now rumored to be valued at $200 million, according to the New York Times. In the week following this announcement, Spotify’s stock went up 17%. The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) is Spotify’s most popular podcast in 93 markets and lays Spotify’s advertising growth in recent years at the foot of podcasts and Joe Rogan’s show in particular.

Concerns have been swirling around Mr. Rogan’s podcast since the beginning. In September 2020, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed employees’ concerns around transphobic content on the podcast. “Others have concerns specifically over a recent episode,” Ek said at that time, according to Vice.…

The Unthinkable New War

By Nicolaus Schmandt

 In the days leading up to the Russian attack on Ukraine, it seemed that the United States had gone crazy. They kept insisting that Russia was going to mount an attack on neighboring Ukraine, when nearly everyone knowledgeable about the geopolitics of the area dismissed this as a very unlikely outcome. Russia had built up troops of a similar size in the area every year for a long time now. It just didn’t make any sense given that the two nations were very close to each other in many ways, it would be intensely unpopular, and difficult to pull off.…

Tips to Prepare for Tax Season 2022

Believe it or not, tax season is officially here. While it is completely understandable to avoid thinking about taxes until you absolutely have to, taking a few preemptive steps can keep you organized and help reduce stress. Whether you file your taxes using tax software yourself or work with a tax professional, check out the tips below to confidently tackle your taxes this year. 

Step #1: Gather all of your forms & documents 

Prevent last-minute scrambling by organizing all your tax documents. Here’s a summary of the tax documents and the information you’ll need:

  • W-2s (from your workplace)
  • SSA-1099 (summary of Social Security benefits)
  • 1099s  (if you have additional income, interest, gains/ losses) 
  • 1099-Rs (if you receive income from pensions, annuities, and retirement accounts) 
  • 1095-A (if you have government marketplace health coverage) 
  • 1098s (students receive a summary that reports interest and tuition payments) 
  • W-2Gs ( if you have gambling winnings, yes, you also need to report this) 
  • Schedule K-1s ( used for partnership income, trust income, and company ownership) 
  • Letter 6419 – ( if you have children, this reports Advance Child Tax Credit Payments) 
  • Letter 6475 – (if you received any federal stimulus payments, this reports the Economic Impact (stimulus) Payment) 

Step #2:  Schedule out a date to file 

Remember the deadline to submit your taxes is April 18, 2022.

A Chat with Aliza Knox

This year, Stern Women in Business (SWIB) kicked off Women’s Month by hosting a fireside chat with Aliza Knox, former Google and Twitter executive and current BCG advisor and board member to several technology companies. Knox was born in Iowa, grew up in California and attended college at Brown University. After undergrad, she moved to New York where she ended up attending Stern through valuable foresight and, according to her, a touch of serendipity.

In 1981 Knox was working at Bankers Trust and living in the West Village when she decided she wanted to swim as part of her exercise routine.…

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